Both Federal and Massachusetts laws provide women with job leave rights when they give birth or adopt a child. A bill recently filed in the Massachusetts legislature proposes amending state law to give men paternity leave rights. This would bring Massachusetts more in line with federal law on family leave, which is gender neutral.
In Massachusetts, under the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act (MMLA), women are allowed to take 8 weeks of unpaid maternity leave. An employee who has given birth to twins is entitled to eight weeks unpaid leave for each child. Maternity leave can be taken for

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in an August decision in Global Naps, Inc. v. Awiszus decided that a female employee who was absent from work for more than eight weeks was not entitled to the protections of the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act (MMLA). Although this story has been widely reported in the media, the purpose of this post is to comment upon the wider implications of the court’s ruling.
The employee, Sandy Stephens, was employed as a housekeeper for the president of Global Naps, Inc. (“Global”), a telecommunications company. Stephens alleged in her lawsuit that

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